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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt:...of from 120 to 150 trees, of about the same age, produced upward of $1,000 each at home. The Union Pacific Railroad will give us an unlimited market. Peaches bear three years in five. In Livingston, one gentleman gathered from 100 trees 1,000 bushels of apples, worth 75 cents to $1 per bushel; peaches do not succeed so well; pears grow large and delicious; many persons are putting out vineyards, but the business is yet new. In De Kalb, one small orchard of twenty-seven trees, set nine years, yielded 117 bushels of apples, worth 75 cents per bushel; peaches yield about once in three or four years; pears, cherries, &c., do well. Our Pike reporter says that 50,000 bushels of apples are annually shipped from that county. In Lincoln, an orchard of 1,200 trees, fourteen years old, yielded $1,500 worth of apples last year, at $3 per barrel. Our Miller County reporter says:--"1 have never known any place to exceed this for fruit. Apples and pears receive most attention, but pears, grapes, and all the small fruits do well. I have one apple-tree (Wmesap) only six years old from the seed, which last season yielded one bushel of good, well-grown fruit; the tree is three inches in diameter. A dwarf pear-tree, only four years from the bud, ripened seventy pears of the Seckel variety. Beat that anywhere else, and let us hear of it." In Cooper County, apples rarely fail, and our correspondent says that ten acres, set out in good winter varieties, will be a fortune to a young man; he can set forty trees to the acre, which will bear in about five years, when he can get $5 per tree for his fruit standing, $200 per acre, $2,000 for his orchard. Our Cole reporter says:--"All our uplands, ridges,and hills are specially adapted to the growing of...